Editing Liza Minnelli (section)

===Film===
[[File:Liza Minnelli Cabaret 1972 crop.JPG|thumb|right|As [[Sally Bowles]] in ''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]'']]
Minnelli's first appearance on film is as the baby in the final shot of her mother's film ''[[In the Good Old Summertime]]'' (1949). Her first credited film role was as the love interest in ''[[Charlie Bubbles]]'' (1967), [[Albert Finney]]'s only film as director and star, although four years earlier, she did voiceover work for the animated film ''[[Journey Back to Oz]]'', a sequel to ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''. Minnelli was the voice of Dorothy (a character played in the earlier film by her mother Judy Garland) in what would have been her first credited film role had it been released in 1964 as planned—the [[Filmation]] production was delayed, eventually being released in the UK during 1972.

Minnelli appeared in ''[[The Sterile Cuckoo]]'' (1969), [[Alan J. Pakula]]'s first feature film as Director, as Pookie Adams, a needy, eccentric teenager. Her performance was nominated for the Academy Award for [[Best Actress in a Leading Role]]. She played another eccentric character in ''[[Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon]]'' (1970), directed by [[Otto Preminger]]. A nude scene in that film, filmed in a Massachusetts cemetery, resulted in a [[misdemeanor]] complaint by family of those buried there, and a "Liza Minnelli Bill" was introduced the following year to penalise filming in Massachusetts cemeteries without permission.<ref>{{AFI film|id=23451|title=Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=5|title=Mass. Cemeteries Safe From Nude Pic Capers|date=June 17, 1970}}</ref>

Minnelli appeared in her best-known film role, [[Sally Bowles]], in the film version of ''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]'' (1972). She said that one of the things she did to prepare was to study photographs of actresses [[Louise Glaum]] and [[Louise Brooks]] and the dark-haired women of the era in which the film is set.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Liza Minnelli: Be "strange and extraordinary", her father once told her. She listened|magazine=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|first=Ingrid|last=Sischy|date=February 2004}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=September 2019|type=magazine}} Minnelli won the Academy Award for [[Best Actress in a Leading Role]] for her performance, along with a [[Golden Globe Award]], [[BAFTA Award]], and also [[Sant Jordi Award]] and [[David di Donatello Award]] for Best Foreign Actress.

Following the success of ''Cabaret'', [[Bob Fosse]] and Minnelli teamed for ''[[Liza with a Z|Liza with a 'Z'. A Concert for Television]]'', a television special. The program aired two times on TV and was not seen again until a DVD release in 2006.

Minnelli appeared in three expensive flops in three years, with ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' suggesting by 1978 that she was the number-one choice for box office poison.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 4, 1978|title='Star Wars'; What Else Was News in 1977|last=Frederick|first=Robert B.|page=21}}</ref> First was ''[[Lucky Lady]]'' (1975), then she worked with her father in ''[[A Matter of Time (film)|A Matter of Time]]'' (1976), co-starring [[Ingrid Bergman]] and then ''[[New York, New York (1977 film)|New York, New York]]'' (1977), which gave Minnelli her best known [[signature song]]. She sometimes performed duets on stage with [[Frank Sinatra]], who recorded a cover version (for his ''[[Trilogy: Past Present Future]]'' album).

Minnelli made fewer film appearances from then on, but her next film, ''[[Arthur (1981 film)|Arthur]]'' (1981), where she starred as [[Dudley Moore]]'s love interest, was a big hit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981&p=.htm|title=1981 Domestic Grosses|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> She returned to film for ''[[Rent-A-Cop]]'' and ''[[Arthur 2: On the Rocks]]'' (both 1988) and ''[[Stepping Out (1991 film)|Stepping Out]]'' (1991), a musical comedy drama. She later appeared in ''[[The Oh in Ohio]]'' in 2006 which received only a [[limited release]] in theatres.<ref name=Mojo>{{Mojo title|id=ohinohio|title=The Oh in Ohio}}</ref>